Is there an actual dollar limit a student can borrow

<p>See this article in the New York Times about an aspiring lawyer with $400,000 in student loan debt, including penalties</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/business/02lawyer.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/business/02lawyer.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Granted, this is an extreme case, but he graduated from law school in 2004 with $230,000 in student loan debt, and has never made a single payment on his student debts (!).</p>

<p>If there is an upper limit on student loan debt, it is probably much higher than is wise to accumulate.</p>